It's kind of sad that the pinnacle of human endeavour happened something like fifty years ago. Sure, we have better gadgets now a days - things we don't need, for the most part, things with tremendous land fill potential. But nothing really new.
In the area of medicine, I have to agree there have been huge advances, but in nearly every other aspect of life there has been a falling away.
We've passed our Golden Age, probably in the mid Twentieth Century.
We can get around the planet quicker, to see the devastation first hand - poisoned skies, poisoned seas, endangered species, starving people.
If you are really lucky, you may get to see a loony religious halfwit blow themselves and others up.
But generally, nothing has really changed in fifty years - mum, dad, two kids, a house in the suburbs, two cars, parents go to work, children go to school. They go to the beach at Xmas, after presents, dinner and a sleep.
Kids grow up, get married and put their parents in a home.
Repeat.
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